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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
Tired Of Weighing Her

Omaha Dame xiously)-Why, how
thin you look?
Married Daughter-Thin! Why, [
thought [ was gaining in weight.
Nonsense. You are getting as thin as
q rail"
IFS very queer. My husband can {
hold me on his lap half as long. as ne
used to because I've got SO heavy
All men try to get the earth' put me
earth gets them. This is not loKe' IL IS
the grave truth.
Roby's beach three miles eas' u wee
nah IL To he made into a Long Branch
on . small scale, and the Neenah q Me-
nasha street railway will extend to it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
The "Scalpers" Scalped.
Chicago Journal.

Nowhere in Chicago has the Inter
State Railroad law caused so much con-
ste rnation as on Clark street. There are
located nearly all Of the leading ticket
brokers and many Of the crooked scalpers
who have proved terrors to the public.
tsWe are knocked out completely" said
one ticket-scalper this morning. "All we
can do is to sell out what we have on hand
and go out of business. The penalties of
the new law are so great that we would
be unable to get any tickets without steal
ing them, and there is law against that
also, I am told.''
Another leading broker said: 1--WE
have no Boston or New York tickets on
hand Those we have are principally for
Western points, and will soon be gone. l
think few legitimate brokers, such as
belong to the Guarantee Association, will
try to hold their places with the hope that
the next Congress will modify the bill,
but these crooked sharks are killed al
ready as sure a. poison kills rats. AS far
as they are concerned it will be good
thing for the public and for US who do a
legitimate brokerage, providing the thing
is modified so we can get on our feet
again. It looks now as if there will be
many desirable places for rent IN this
vicinity inside of the next sixty days"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
EASTER EGG-ROLLING
A Pretty Scene on the White House Grounds
Yesterday.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE grounds
Immediately south of the presidents
house presented pretty picture to- day.
Thousands of people were gathered
there engaged in the pleasures of easter
egg-rolling, custom which has prevail
ed in this city for many years. The par
Elephants were of all ages, sizes and con-
ditions of life, from the child with her
French nurse, to the poor black picanin-
ny with bare feet. All had eggs boiled
and dyed, and made the air ring with
their shouts and laughter as they rolled
their eggs and themselves down the
grassy knobs, and chased each other
across the lawns. The president enjoyed
the spectacle very much. His Office win
dow opened directly over the scene and
he frequently paused IN his work to gaze
upon it. Mrs. Cleveland spent the
morning at her country home aud so
failed to see the children at play. While
the presidents public reception was in
progress in the east room IN the after
noon, the children heard of it and flock
ed in great numbers to shake hands with
the president.
An hour before the presidents daily
reception began the children flooded
into the White house anxious to see Mr..
Cleveland. The building was overflow
ing long before the president entered
the east parlor at 100 Then they
rushed towards the president, crowding
about him as though he were Santa
Clous distributing presents. They pulled
at his coat tails and were not content
to shake his hands and cry Good Mr..
Cleveland" "Nice president" and 9th
err EXPLANATIONS, but they fingered
around till the president told them they
must go out and let the other children
come up. There was a continual roar of
juvenile voices. Such sight was new
Ell before witnessed in this or any other
country. Finally the president induced
the children to go out as soon as they
had shaken his hand. But hundreds Of
them turned around, went outside the
entrance and turning back went through
the same programme. Outside there
were hundreds of people who could not
get inside. When this entertainment
had continued for more than an hour the
president grew weary and the doors were
closed. The egg-rolling began to be
something of q feature here during the
early part of Hayes administration.
few hundreds of children met on the
green about the capitol on an Easter
Monday and "batted" eggs. They rolled
few down hill and had good time.
The next Easter Monday the number
doubled, and on the third Easter Mon
day there were so many that they ruined
the sodding on the whole ground and
congress passed a law forbidding their
congregating at that place again. They
have since taken possession of the spac-
ious White house grounds. 1t is simply
| day of frolic for the children and it is
the opening of spring sports for jGyen-
| lies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
NEWS NOTES.

It is reported that the snow is still ten
feet deep 40 Cooke City, Montana.
a citizen at Santa Rosa, California, re-
Gently ate forty raw eggs in twenty five
minutes.
The Pennsylvania legislature is con-
sidering bill to prohibit spirit-medlum
exhibitions.
Miners are being landed in Alaska by
every steamer. They are preparing for
an early start up the Yuokon.
Great excitement prevails at Winnipeg
over a reported interference with rail
road building by the government, and
rebellion is openly talked Of.
Six hundred and sixty-four crop re-
ports from TAI townships in Michigan re-
port the wheat fields looking 'bare and
brown but express the hope that the
roots have not been hurt by the unfavor-
able March weather.
The official canvass Of the votes cast at
the recent Chicago city election shows
that Mr.. Roche's majority for mayor
over Nelson, the labor candidate, was 22,-
759. The third party prohibition candi-
date for mayor received only 376 votes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21

troops by organing pitchfork brigade.
For three hours he had six of his men,
three of them Germans, whs had served
in the German army, and one of them a
Hungarian of the bellicose experience,
standing in line in the barn-yard, armed
with pitchforks and learning thespischfork
drill. The barbecue was to come off en-
Tuesday, and on the Sunday before the
fun it was discovered that no one knew
how to barbecue the OK. Mr.. Cunning
manfully understood the task, himself.
He always dressed for dinner and conse-
9uently had his evening clothes On when
the difficulty was announced. He put on
first s'poncho," witch is a fiery red
blanket with black border, and has
hole cut in it to put ones head through.
With this over his dress suit and crush
hat on, he went out to the barn yard, had
an oven built next the stone fence, and a
fire lighted, which soon made bed OF
coke Goals. Then he caused a pole TO be
thrust through the OK, which was placed
over the Goals. ali night long the enthus-
iastic host superintendent the roasting.
The guests began to arrive early III the
morning, and instead of 200, 300 men ap
peared. The OK, which was brought in
on the shoulders of eight men, received
sore perfunctory attention, but not
much. The barrels Of whisky were
preached, and the fun begaa. Norman A.
Lawler, Mr.. Cummings attorney, made a
speech of welcome, which was enthusiast
tically applauded in the nterjections of
all languages, for all nationalities were
represented. Whisky flowed in rivers.
They gnlped 1t down from dippers buck
cts and pans. The mere they gul ped, the
more they yelled. When the tin horns
were passed around the roof began to
loosen. INDECENT artists overlooked in
the distribution raided tno pan-h house
and converted the pan house into drums,
which they hammered with clubs. They
stamped and beat the sides of the barn
till the noise was deafening. Mr.. Gun
ming superintendent every thing with plac-
i'd dignity, modestly declining to make a
speech. In two hours and half after
the barbecue began, and before noon,
two-thirds af the guests were wildly full.
Fights began to break out, and finally
everything wore such a threatening as
pect that Mr.. Genning was prevailed up
on to adjourn the circus. One hundred
men more or less sober began to load 200
men more or less drunk into wagons.
Finally all were loaded in and the pro-
cession of 80 vans started for town, yell
ing, fighting, blowing horns and beating
pans. Mr.. GuAning then put a violet in
his button-hole, and informed his wife
and the maids that they might
come down. Fearing to go him
self, he sent his secretary to report
Proceedings in Mt Vernon. Mt. Vernon
was prepared. It's doors were closed and
its shutters up. The procession of
wagons arrived and dumped its load on
the open space next the station. Noses
were punched, cheeks hammered and eyes
blaekened, everybody yelling like Indians.
Nobody was seriously hurt, however, for
there was no weapons, and all the fighters
were too drunk to do much injury. "A
regular Donnybrook fair, you know"
said Mr.. Cunning, mildly. ooh! 1t was
no end of fun!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
Famous Recipe for Curing Hams.

The following is the famous recipe us
ed by Mrs. Henry Clay for curing hams,
several hogsheads of which were annual
ly sent to Boston, where, under the name
of ashland hams" they commanded the
highest of prices, especially among the
wealthy Wings of the city.
For every ten hams OF moderate size,
she took three and one-half pounds of
fine salt, one pound of saltpetre and two
pounds of brown sugar, and after mix
ing these thoroughly together, rubbed the
hams Herewith on either side. They
we're then packed in tight box and
placed in q cool Clubhouse for about three
weeks, when the hams were taken out and
put in a picking tub or hogshead and
covered with brine strong enough to swim
an egg. After remaining in the pickle
for about three weeks they were taken
out, thoroughly rubbed with fresh salt
and hung up in well ventilated house
for few days to dry. Next they were
transferred TO the smoke house, where
they were hung up and smoked with
green hickory or walnut wood until they
acquired the color of bright mahogany.
This accomplished, each ham was sewed
up in canvas, the coverings whitewashed,
and hung up to dry, after which they were
whitewashed again and packed away in
hogsheads with hickory ashes, until want
ed either for home use or sending to
Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
BabY's Table Manners.
BY Marion Harland.


Passing along the corridor Of q fash
ionable seaside hotel one day last year,
stopped to look through a glass par
tition into the dining room set apart
for the use Of children under 5 years of
ago and their nurses" The 'hnurses" out
numbered the children two to one. There
were nurses IN caps and nurses without
caps; nurses in the jaunty rig Of ladies'
maids of various nationalities; nurses
with white faces and nurses with quad
room compilations; six nurses wore coats
and pantaIoons; two had mu5taches and
side whiskers. But for the announcement
in gilt letters on the door, I should have
mistaken them for eoachmen and Wallets.
Between and among the motley crew who
were talking boisterously and devouring
voraciously, putting their knives down
throats, drinking tea from saucers, and
with their thumbs inside of tumblers,
sat babies from to 6 years old, their
quick senses taking in every feature OF
the scene, repeating thrice per diem
They learned many things more ob1ec-
tionable than that peas can be conveyed
on the knife to the mouth and meat be
gnawed from the bones, bat our business
at present lies with the latter class OF
accomplishments.
Papa frowns and mamma signs over
the enigmatimatical perversity of child
rem when Robby pulls audibly on his
mug of milk, his eyes rolling over the
top, and sets it down empty with loud
"Ah-h." eats with his fingers; Sits the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
FARM, HOME ANOGARDEN.
THE SKEIN WE WIND.

If yon and today should stop and lay
Our ii'ework down. and let our hauds fall where
they will.
Fail down and lie quite still;
And If some other hands should come and st ,op
to fipd
The threads carried so 1t could wind
Beginning where we stopped; if it should come
to keep
Our life work going seek
To carry on the good design
Distiuct1vely made vourS or mine
What would il find?
If love should come,
STOPPING above when we are DONE
To find bright threads
That we have u I'D, toat it may spin them longer
find but silredS
That break when touched how cold.
Sad. shiverTng, porfionless The hands will hold
The broken strands, and know
Fresh cause for VICE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
BARBECUE As WAS A BARBECUE.
The Mad Prank Of an Odd English Dairy
Farmer.


The Mad Prank Of an Odd English Dairy
Farmer.
Thomas B. Cunning, Jr., an eccentric
Young Englishman, celebrated his 2Sth
Birthday at Mt. Vernon, n. Y, the other
day, by giving on his big milk ranch
there a ''graud barbecue and drinks for
the crowd in honor of free America and
her sovereign people," as the 200 printed
invitations announced. Having sent out
the invitations, Mr.. Cunning began to
make preparations of two different kinds.
The first related to the entertainment of
his guests; the second to defence Of his
wife and household against them. He
began by chartering all the horses, car
riages, trucks and furniture vans III Mt
Vernon. For the barbecue he bought
200 loaves of bread, , dozen boxes OF
cake, $50 gallons Of whisky, barrel OF
Jamaica rum and 40 gallons of brandy
A portion of this he had made into 4C
gallons of milk punch. He had an OK
slaughtered which, when dressed, weighed
72O pounds. He further, in order that
music might lend its sensGous softnes:
to the scene, purchased 100 tin horns
Then he had the large coach-house clear
ed 70; the fun. To defend his house
from his guests, he first carefully inspect
ed the arsenal, which consists of fou
Winchester rifles and two six shooters
Then he had all the doors and Window
barricaded except the back door, which
he used for exit and entrance during the
gladstone merrymaking. He planned
Mrs. Cunning and the maids should take
refuge in the tower. which is a rectangu
lar observatory on the top or the country
bo,so opd xrbiob ouerlaoES the ScaOe
Not satisfied with this, he modified hi
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21

The gilded youth of Gotham are dropp,
ing their jaws in anticipation of another
publication of tailOrs' debtors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
BROWN ONION SOUP.

Boil two dozen button onions till ten
der in salted water; stir two tablespoon
fuls of brown thickening Or roux into
two quarts of the hot stock, which will
make it as thick as cream; add the on
ions, let them cook in the soup ten min
utes, then squeeze in the juice of half a
lemon and serve.
Mushrooms may take the place of the
onions, in which case a tablesp oonful OF
sherry to each quart gives very fine
flavor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
MULLIGATAwNEY SOUP.

The soup is really best made with rab
bit, but fowls may be substituted. Take
knuckle of veal weighing say three
pounds, cut off the meat, have the bone
cracked, and rabbit or fowl. if rabbit let
it lay in water after cleansing for an
hour. Put the veal in pot with two
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21

PRINCE BISMARCK buys his wine of g
large Bordeaux house, and its represents
tive the other day, as the story goes, aft
er getting large order from the man OF
blood and iron, wanted to be sociable as
Frenohmen do, and so softly asked about
the probability of war, Tut, tut" ex
claimed the prince, "what pat war into
your head? Do you suppose would or
der wine if Iexpected war? No, no;
would come and get it myself"
Long cloaks of brightest red, trimm &c
with black fur, have been made fashion
able in Washington by one of the Legation
ladies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15
All Sort. OF Poison,

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the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes +:
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Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the
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even more than its proprietors claim fOrit
Mr.. Michael Long, Jr., with the Stro-
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Mrs. Amanda Insie, of Gastonia, N C !,
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for our family physician, who pronounced
it scrofula, and prescribed S. s. S. for it.
/ gave the baby S. S S, and it son got
the disease under control. The sores are
healed, and the baby is well and healthy.
/ know S. S. S. saved its life, and told
our doctor so. He is a regular physician,
and prescribed S. s. S. for the baby us soon
as he saw il had scrofula.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ga.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15

HlIIl.
Newspaper paragraphs have credited
you with being dog fancier. How is
thatg
Bless you yes, of course | am; but
now | have only seven dogs the
law allows me We live thirteen miles
from Chicago. at Park Ridge. There
are great many very poor women there,
and | bred twentyfour st. Bernard
dogs and trained them to work tread
mill attachment which invented to ap-
ply to sewlng-machines. induced these
poor women to buy sewing machines,
then | loaned them the dogs and tread
mills for motive power. At last-for |
kept on breeding them-I had forty-eight
Alpine dogs. such as no American ever
possessed. An insurance company Of
fered me $40, 900 for my pet st. Bernard.
Topaz. but did not need the money
and | refused to sell him. The kennels
for these forty eight dogs cost the Cap
tain 81 900, but he was Just as fond of
the animals as was
We'll, States Attorney GrinnelI and
Police Inspector Bonfield were angry
with me on account of my frendiness to
the condemned men, so they induced the
village Trustees of Park Ridge to pass a
law by which no one person could own
over seven dogs The penalty was a fine
of $500 and six months Imprisonment.
The captain says the law is unconstitu-
tional, but before we could test this
some time must elapse and in the mean
time either the dogs must be killed or
must suffer the penalty The Captain
swore--a nice oath, mind-that the min
ions of the law should not kill them and
loved them all too well to give them
to anyone else who might perhaps ill-treat
them. So we decided that the captain
should take them out and shoot them
one by one. The captain could hardly
see the poor dogs for tears. which blinded
him, and | kept shut up in dark room,
where | could neither see nor hear what
was going on. So of forty eight dogs
now have only seven.
4 was a great friend of Tersesa Stur-
lata. the girl who shot her lover, Charley
Stiles. n few years ago. The whole
world was down on her and | took her in
hand. After she served her term in the
penitentiary put her on the right road.
She is with wealthy relatives here in New
York and has eighteen pupils. We cor
respond regularly and am going to see
her Well, because | took her up there
was great fuss made in Chicago and all
kinds of things were said. Now. the
whole thing has been rehashed by the
officials because | am working in the in
terests of the condemned men. Teresa
is now about 20, delicate and lovely as q
piece of statuary. | sat with her through
her trial. She was not naturally bad, as
the result of her reformation shows.
Because of my kindness to her. the Owl
Club of Chicago vowed vengeance, and
actually sent to my home the notorious
Cora Mum, Pinkerton's detective, and
asked if. as | was in the adopting line
and had adopted Teresa. didn't want
to adopt Cora.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15

cision of character She is proud of the
fact that the ordinary foibles of dress
and fashion supposed to be the weak
ness of her sex do not belong to her.
She dresses in total disregard to the pre-
vailing ideas of the modistes. She has a
CHEEKY, ringing laugh. No woman
knows the condemned men so well as
she, and they have no greater friend and
advocate, not excepting the Captain
himself. 1t is said that she is writing
a history of the men--of their efforts for
the amelioraton of the condition of the
working classes, of their trial and con-
viction, and of their wives, sweethearts
and babies. Upon this point Mrs. Black
is reticent She has had considerable
literary experience, however, and is de-
cidedly eccentric.
During the whole of the Anarchist
trial she sat Immediately behind her hus-
band. making notes and offering sug
gestions, to which the eloquent advocate
paid listening Difference. Capt Black
never appeared in court or visited the
Cook County jail without his wife. She
is as well known q figure in the Chicago
Criminal Court building and upon the
streets as George Francis Train is in
Madison square. She is a sprightly and
intelligent talker and enthusiastic about
any lawsuits in which her husband may
be concerned. 1t is asserted in Chicago
that Capt. Black was never seen upon
the streets nor at any consultation or
public gathering unaccompained by his
wife.
A World reporter found Mrs. Black at
the Hotel Dam yesterday. She said;
In the eighteen years that Capt. Black
and | have been married | have been
his dailY and hourly Communion in bust
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15

to favor the raw material of other coun-
tries in competition against our material
of the same kind. Should that recon-
mendation of the President be approved,
it would turn 100000 American laborers
out of employment before it had been in
in one years operation.
'sThe marked and general effect of the
Presidents message will be to bring the
country where it ought to be brought
to full, fair contest on the question of
protection. The President himself
makes it the one issue by presenting no
other in his message. think it well to
have the question settled. The Demo-
cratic party in power is a standing men,
ace to the industrial prosperity of the
country. That menace should be re-
moved or the policy it foreshadows
should be made certain. Nothing is
so mischieyous to business as uncertain
ty; nothing so paralyzing as doubt"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15

rs YOUR BLOOD PURE? For inn
pure blood the best medicine known.
Scovill's Sarsaparilla, or Blood aud
Liver Syrup, may be implicitly relied
on when everything else fails. Take it
in the spring time especially for the inn
pure secretions of the blood incident to
that season of the year; and take it at
all times for Cancer, Scrofula, Liver
Complaints, Weakness, Boils, Tumors.
Swellings, Skin Diseases, Malaria, and
the thousand ills that GENE from inn
pure blood To insure cheerful dis
position take Scovill's Blood And Liver
Syrup, which will restore the mind to
its natural equilibrium.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-12-15

THE most severe cold will soon yield
to Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. II
does not suppress cold but loosens
and relieves it. No one afflicted with
a throat or lung trouble can use il
without benefit. Price so cents per
bottle. Sold by A. IL. Barber